Thp Family Council
Edit'f Bute: The Tamil? Council conilitl at judge, s pychltrtit,
rhree clergymen, newpaper editor, a women's editor and two wrlleri Each
article, ft; a tumraary ol an actual report. The rami)? Council does not Rive
advice, n jTelv reports on problems that have been dealt witb by responsible
acenrl id coiftiselnrs.
Bill IR I don't want Jane'f
ex-husfcnd coming around.
Jit . I've
sved him from
Bill B- My wife and I have
been married two years and
could be quite happy if it were
not for her ex-husband.
Jane's ex-husband was an al
coholic and he is on the skids in
every way. She was married to
him for five years and knew him
for a couple of years before that.
She says he is a wonderful per
son except for this terrible habit.
Every now and then he comes
around looking for a handout or
a little sympathy and Jane gives
him both. Then she is depressed
for days afterward.
I feel sorry for the guy, but I
don't want him coming around,
making my wife feel sick. If she
loved me she wouldn't have any
thing, to do with him.
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Jane B. I do love Bill, but
I'll never be able to forget Ted.
Ted stands hand and shoulders
over any other man, but life
with hirn was impossible. I told
Bill when I married him I could
not kreak off all feeling for Ted
lust like that. I would have
stuck to Ted if only he had been
willing to help himself by join
ing AA or getting medical help.
Ted has nobody but me to
turn to when he gets into real
trouble. Can I turn him away
when he needs a little human
sympathy and maybe a couple
of dollars? t believe I've saved
him from suicide several times.
Sometimes I feel I should nev
er have left Ted. It was the
worst blow of his life. It was
selfish of me to do it.
The Council: Jane has a heart
breaking problem. She may nev
er be able to find complete peace
with her conscience, but she
should know, at least, where her
real responsibility rests in this
ituation.
Her duty is to give her full de
votion to her present husband.
She cannot do this while she
places Ted "head and shoulders
over any other man." It is not
only the handouts and sympathy
she gives Ted that bothers Bill,
but her deeper divided loyalty.
Jane must find the courage to
go through with her decision td
divorce Ted and marry Bill. She
hasn't done that yet in more
than the formalities. She must
remember that she couldn't find
within herself the strength and
love to go on with her marriage
to Ted. She must accept this fact
and must also accept the guilt.
pain and anxiety that result
from turning her back on a hu
man being who meant so much
to her. She cannot expect to
have both an easier life and an
easier conscience.
Possibly Feels Guilty
It is possible that Jane feels
not only guilty of dealing Ted
"the worst blow of his life," but
also in some measure guilty for
his alcoholism. Alcoholics often
try to hold others responsible
for their condition in their des
perate bids for sympathy.
If this is the case, Jane should
try to rid herself of this unnec
essary burden of guilt. Ted's
problems rest within his own
character and are rooted back
beyond his marriage. It is possi
ble that marriage to the sympa
thetic, adoring Jane did not help
him, but made his problem
worse. If this is the case, Jane
is now making matters still
worse by offering shreds of sym
pathy. It is doubtful that Jane has
actually saved Ted from suicide.
It is possible that he can still
pull himself up by his own boot
straps if he is forced to give up
his dependence on Jane. She
should again urge him with all
her strength to turn to AA or a
doctor for better help than she
can give.
(Copyright 1957, Ganeral
Features Corp.)
Is That So?
The human's consuming hun-j
ger to have children, when na
tural methods are unavailing is
oftentimes satisfied by adopting
a less fortunate mother's baby.
Is adoption foster motherhood
common among higher ani
mals, too?
Among mammals, when the
mother is with milk, such adop
tions are possible in fact, some
times even sought by domestic
animals. Without enough pup
pies to relieve her full breasts,
a bitch will take on an assort
ment of young. (Because of
strange odors, it may be well to
rub the infant with a doggy
smelling blanket, preferably one
on which she herself has slept.)
Thus, among the many animals
which have been reared by fe
male dogs are the young of
coyote, wolf, cats and skunks. In
the San Francisco zoo a collie
bitch reared two baby leopards;
Real Estate Confab
Scheduled This Week
Leevern Johnson, real estate
instructor at the University of
Oregon, and Ed Lucke, sales
manager for John Clarke, real
tor, Portland, will be principal
speakers March 27 and 28 at a
real estate educational confer
ence from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the
Medford YMCA building.
Subjects to be covered in
the conference include con
tracts, descriptions, encum
brances, finding buyers, selling
amenities, determining listing
price, earnest money contracts,
basic office records, real estate
law, ethics and broker salesman
relations.
Discussions, questions and an
swers will be part of the pro
gram, according to Clarence F.
Hyde, state real estate depart
ment commissioner, and Burton
W. Dunn, education supervisor.
Trie first telephone was estab
lished in Arkansas in 1879.
Dragging Operations
Start for Car, Driver
Eugene (U.R) Dragging
operations were started Satur
day in a swift section of the
McKenzie river northeast of
here for a car and driver believ
ed to have plunged into the
stream.
A passerby reported seeing
car tracks leading over the bank
off the highway near Hayden
bridge and police later found in
dications that a car had bounced
off the rocks along the bank
and into 50 to 60 feet of water.
Officers were looking for a
1953 cream or ivory Chevrolet
on the basis of paint chips,
front suspension and bits of
chrome found along the bank.
Committees Named in
Improvement Course
Committees made up of stu
dents of the recently started
Dale Carnegie adult improve
ment course were named at a
class meeting last week.
About 40 persons are enrolled
in the class, which meets in the
Jackson hotel. Instructors come
from various Oregon cities, and
weekly achievement awards are
presented to class members. The
course lasts 14 weeks.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ringr-Narun!W
at another time, a young lion.
Polar bear cubs, too, have been
reared by canine foster mothers.
A domestic cat has given her
milk to young squirrels; a ewe
to two baby lions . . . after
which the grown lions would lie
down with the sheep in one con
tented family.
In the deer family, an elk
raised a baby axis deer a pretty
little spotted deer from India;
and a calf of a gnu, a species
of antelope, was adapted by a
cow.
As is commonly known, a
broody chioken will sit on al
most anything which even re
motely resembles a smooth egg.
As a result, it is easily possible
to have broody hens hatch a
clutch of almost any kind of
eggs. But the best foster mother
among birds is the tiny bantam
hen. They have a quiet, confid
ing disposition and make devot
ed mothers whether to pheas
ants, quail, ducks, geese or pea
hens. But for the bigger eggs,
which are too heavy to be turn
ed . by the banty, she needs a
human assist each day.
Young Scatter Too Quickly
With all these foster young,
the banty will be quite success
ful except the quail. And why
not the q nail, t he smallest?
When hatched, the young scatter
through the low-growing brush
too quickly and the little mothei
however solicitous simply can
not keep up with them and they
are usually soon lost.
In the wili three birds are no
torious in that some of their kind
never raise their own young;
they simply lay their eggs in
other bid's rests These are the
bronzed cuckoo of the southwest
Pacific; the hone guide of Afri
ca; and in America, the cow
bird. As for wild mammals adapt
ing young, t has been reported
that orphaned bear cubs have
been adopter' by bears; orphaned
wolf cubs by wolf bitches; buf
falo, raccoon, deer, by their own
find respectively. Perhaps. If so,
the chances were the adopting
mothers had lost their own and
may have been seeking relief
Sunday. March 24, 1957
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MILL BOUGHT
Milton-Freewater (U.R)
Purchase of the Preston-Shaffer
flour mill here was announced
Friday by Moriz Milburn, pres
ident of Centennial Mills, Inc.
Indian rhinoceros horn, re
duced to powder, brings as much
as SI 50 a pound. Many Asiatics
believe the horn has wondrous
powers for solving almost any
problem, mental or physical.
Schmidt Is Named
Extension Engineer
Andrew H. Schmidt, agricul
ture engineer formerly with the
Soil Conservation service, has
been named rural extension en
gineer for the California Oregon
Power company, Frank A. Ben
esh, Medford district manager,
has announced.
Schmidt, an Oregon State col
lege graduate and practicing ag
riculture engineer for 15 years,
will be available to aid farmers
in the Copco service area with
problems relating to irrigation
pumping and other uses of elec
tricity on the farm, Benesh said.
The extension engineer may
be reached through local Copco
offices or through the sales de
partment in the head offices in
Medford.
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